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  • Learn the Language of Dance That Ladies Love

    by Paul Zaidman ...
    When you dance, it doesn't matter whether you'rea man or woman, you cannot hide your true self,dancing is simply a window into your soul. It is amirror to your own reality. Dancing literally says tothe onlooker,"This is who I truly am" ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Maurice Hines

    Rhythms of A Maestro

    by Lara Goldman ...
    "THE STORY OF MAURICE HINES: RHYTHMS OF A MAESTRO" is a celebration of the enduring legacy of a real pioneer, not only a memoir. This book pays tribute to the art of tap dancing and the amazing abilities that paved the way for future generations, providing a unique look into the heyday of entertainment.Why You Should Buy:Inspirational Journey: Trace the incredible journey of Maurice Hines from his ... Read more

    $13.14 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Agility in Dance

    Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance

    This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Mary Wigman

    Mary Wigman (1896-1973), die Tänzerin, die «den Expressionismus in Bewegung umgesetzt hat», wie Oskar Kokoschka schreibt, gehört zu den interessantesten Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Tanz ist eine vergängliche Kunst, das wusste sie nur zu gut: «Was ist mir Zukunft, was Vergangenheit, Gegenwart bin ich, mein Leben ist Tanz», das war ihr Bekenntnis und ihre Lebensweise zugleich. Sie hat ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Embodied Nostalgia

    Early Twentieth Century Social Dance and the Choreographing of Broadway Musical Theatre

    by Phoebe Rumsey ...
    Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing performatively, dramaturgically, and critically in musical theatre.The case studies in this volume are all Broadway musicals set during the Jazz Age (1910 ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Dancing Motherhood

    by Ali Duffy ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance
    Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape the issues mothers in dance negotiate today. This book then reveals perspectives from mothers in dance working in areas such as performance, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • When Words Are Inadequate

    Modern Dance and Transnationalism in China

    by Nan Ma ...
    Series series OXFORD STUDIES IN DANCE THEORY SERIES
    When Words are Inadequate is a transnational history of modern dance written from and beyond the perspective of China. Author Nan Ma extends the horizon of China studies by rewriting the cultural history of modern China from a bodily movement-based perspective through the lens of dance modernism. The book examines the careers and choreographies of four Chinese modern dance pioneers-Yu Rongling, Wu ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Bob Berg Iconic Jazz Style

    by Olegario Diaz ...
    Jazz players tend to be good sharers and good listeners–the qualities are virtually obligatory in often spontaneously conceived ensemble music. And the respect that the best players command can frequently be measured by the behavior of their fellow professionals in the audience. Bob Berg, the lean, flint-featured American saxophonist, often received that kind of attention. Berg's particular skill ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Instruments of Embodiment

    Costuming in Contemporary Dance

    by Eric Mullis ...
    Instruments of Embodiment draws on fashion theory and the philosophy of embodiment to investigate costuming in contemporary dance.It weaves together philosophical theory and artistic practice by closely analyzing acclaimed works by contemporary choreographers, considering interviews with costume designers, and engaging in practice-as-research. Topics discussed include the historical evolution of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Lyrics for Jazz + Tango songs

    Lyrics for Jazz and Tango Songs raccoglie alcune delle liriche scritte per le note intense di un sax, di un piano o di un bandoneone che raccontano la vita e l'amore di chi cammina nelle metropoli contemporanee. Testi da cantare certo ma non meno, e forse ancor piu', da leggere. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milestones in Dance in the USA

    Edited by Elizabeth McPherson ...
    Series series Milestones
    Embracing dramatic similarities, glaring disjunctions, and striking innovations, this book explores the history and context of dance on the land we know today as the United States of America.Designed for weekly use in dance history courses, it traces dance in the USA as it broke traditional forms, crossed genres, provoked social and political change, and drove cultural exchange and collision. The ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Rooted Jazz Dance

    Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

    National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book AwardUNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance EducationAn African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • No Hard Feelings - A Dancer's Reflections

    I thank my lucky stars that I am a so-called dumb dancer, for I can state unequivocally, without presenting an elaborate argument to prove it, that dance is the foundation of all the arts. This little book recounts my experience with dance in Manhattan and Miami Beach, and includes an unfinished novelette I wrote as a student under master teachers long ago, under the guise of "fiction," and ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Tango and the Dancing Body in Istanbul explores the expansion of social Argentine tango dancing among Muslim actors in Turkey, pioneered in Istanbul despite the conservative rule of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) and Tayyip Erdoğan.In this book, Melin Levent Yuna questions why a dance that appears to publicly represent an erotic relationship finds space to expand and increase dramatically ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Kinetic Atmospheres

    Performance and Immersion

    This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Twigg Redemption

    By Ty Branch

    by Allen Smith ...
    Twigg Redemption by Ty Branch is a smooth jazz tenor saxophone track from the EP, "Twigg Redemption". ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jumping the Color Line

    Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

    by Susie Trenka ...
    From the first synchronized sound films of the late 1920s through the end of World War II, African American music and dance styles were ubiquitous in films. Black performers, however, were marginalized, mostly limited to appearing in "specialty acts" and various types of short films, whereas stardom was reserved for Whites. Jumping the Color Line discusses vernacular jazz dance in film as a focal ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Floating Bones

    A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

    Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Identity and Diversity

    Celebrating Dance in Taiwan

    Series series Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific
    Reflecting the breadth and diversity of dance in the Asia–Pacific region, this volume provides an in-depth and comprehensive study of Taiwan’s dance history. Taiwan is home to several indigenous tribes with unique rituals and folk dance traditions, with an array of eclectic influences including martial arts and Peking Opera from China, and dance forms such as contemporary, neo-classical, post ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Lighting Dance

    A Study of Technical, Philosophical, and Psychological Shadows

    Lighting Dance pioneers the discussion of the ability of lighting design to foreground shadow in dance performances.Through a series of experiments integrating light, shadow, and improvised dance movement, it highlights and analyses what it advances as an innovative expression of shadow in dance as an alternative to more conventional approaches to lighting design. Different art forms, such as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dance Appreciation

    Dance Appreciation is an exciting exploration of how to understand and think about dance in all of its various contexts. This book unfolds a brief history of dance with engaging insight into the social, cultural, aesthetic, and kinetic aspects of various forms of dance. Dedicated chapters cover ballet, modern, tap, jazz, and hip-hop dance, complete with summaries, charts, timelines, discussion ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Look Before You Leap

    Look Before You Leap guides parents towards helping their children to achieve their greatest success in dance. As we pull back the curtain on the dance industry, it has never been more important for parents and students to become as informed as possible to avoid the damage that is being done to children through the world-wide epidemics of extreme training, over-training, unqualified teachers and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • THE COMPASSION OF JAZZ

    My Incredible Life in Music and The Movement

    by Jim Cassell ...
    The Compassion of Jazz chronicles the career of Jim Cassell, a native Californian born in la Jolla, as he navigates his way from student to sailor to hippie to political activist with the United Farm Workers in their unionizing efforts in the 1970s. And from there, based on his lifelong love of music instilled in him by his mother, into a career as a promoter and manager for major jazz, latin jazz ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance

    Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD